Are the New York Knicks really strong?

For an average team, it's really strong.

Anthony and Stoudemire are both players who average 25+ points per game, while Delon, as a point guard, has averaged about 18 points per game since joining the Knicks, but his average assists per game are still in double digits, and his 10.3 assists are second only to Nash, Rondo and Jeremy Lin.

Judging from the data alone, the Knicks' Big Three is in no way inferior to the Heat Big Three.

But in reality, there is a huge gap between the two teams.

This can be seen from the third in the east and the eighth in the east.

None of the Knicks' Big Three are masters who are willing to defend and do the dirty work.

Needless to say, Stoudemire spent his early career with the Suns from D'Antoni and basically didn't know what defense was.

Anthony is also a typical offense and defense, or prefers to focus on offense rather than defense.

Delong. Williams is under Sloan's tutelage, and his defensive ability is quite good, but after all, he plays a point guard, which is difficult to contribute to the team as a whole on the defensive end.

So at the end of the day, the Knicks' defense is a far cry from the Heat, and the Wizards' favorite is such a team.

As soon as the two teams began, they attacked each other without giving in.

The starting lineup on the Wizards' side is Curry, Green, George, Jamison and Jordan Jr.

In the playoffs, Wang Xiao officially promoted George to the starting position.

This season, except for the Heat team James, George has not had many opportunities to be reasonable, and the team's ball is basically in the hands of Curry and Harden.

But Wang Xiao has never despised George, and this guy will not lose to Curry Harden's top stars in the future.

Wang Xiao has never been sloppy about George's training, and his training skills have never been distressed at all, and he enjoys the same standards as Curry Harden.

As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days is a time to use soldiers.

In the playoffs, Wang Xiao immediately put George on the starting lineup and let Butler retire to the bench.

Butler didn't have much of an opinion on that.

In his daily training, he could clearly feel George's almost astonishing growth rate, and if Butler was to play against George now, he was no longer sure that he would be able to win against him.

And George is still growing, and no one knows how far he will grow in the future.

At this time, Butler had just signed a big deal with the team, and with the team winning 68 wins in a single season that could be blown for a lifetime, it can be said that there is no desire.

If there's anything he wants, it's the O'Brien Cup, the NBA's highest honor.

And this coincides with him giving up the starting position.

George is younger and more aggressive than him, and while his offensive ability is not inferior to him, his defensive ability is very good.

If George is anything worse than him, it's experience.

Getting George to start, and getting him to the bench, is obviously more cost-effective, with George bringing better defense to the starting lineup and himself bringing more consistent scoring to the bench.

"Rookie ......"

Sitting on the bench, Butler looked at George running on the field and said silently: "Let me see what you can do!" ”

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On the field, George was staring at Anthony the whole time.

Cameron. Anthony, the league's top small forward, looking at the entire NBA, I am afraid that only James can beat him half a goal at present.

It is no exaggeration to say that Anthony is the second man below James in the small forward position.

Of course, the newly rising Kevin in the last two years. Durant also seems to be strong, but the guy is too young to compare with James Anthony for the time being.

At the beginning of the game, George tried to contain Anthony, but simply failed.

Compared to James, Anthony is more difficult to defend.

Unlike James, who eats all over the world and focuses on tank-style crushing breakthroughs, Anthony's offensive means are too rich.

From the time he joined the league, Anthony had the title of offensive kaleidoscope.

From the outside to the inside, from the breakaway to the shot, there are few moves that Anthony won't.

At this point, Anthony and George's style is quite similar, but obviously Anthony is much better than George on the offensive end.

In the first five minutes, Anthony scored eight points in a row, almost bursting George into a sieve.

George obviously didn't expect that Anthony in the playoffs would be so strong, very different from the regular season.

George's forward line was deflated, but the Wizards weren't on the back foot.

Because Curry's scoring efficiency is not inferior to Anthony's, or even more efficient than Anthony!

Unlike George, who is participating in the playoffs for the first time, Curry, who is participating in the playoffs for the second time, is braving!

In the playoffs last season, Curry missed all games from the second round onwards because of an unexpected ankle sprain, which made him unhappy.

Although the team went all the way through the test and defeated the Magic team to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, when facing the Celtics, they were swept away without any resistance.

Curry was thinking at the time that if he was on the court, the situation might be very different!

With this in mind, Curry showed a strong desire to attack on the court, so he hit two three-pointers in front of Delon.

In five minutes, Anthony scored eight points and Curry scored 11 points on a burst shot.

In the entire first quarter, the Knicks scored 28 points, including 14 points for Anthony, 6 points for Stoudemire, 5 points for Deron Williams, and a total of 3 points for the rest of the players.

On the Wizards' side, Curry scored 36 points in the first quarter, and Curry scored 17 points alone.

Looking at D'Antoni frowning on the Knicks bench, Wang Xiao couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth.

Are you kidding? Attack with me?

This season, the Wizards averaged 116.4 points per game in the regular season, ranking first in the league, although the Knicks also ranked third in the league in average points per game, but the average score of 106 points per game was nearly 10 points behind the Wizards!

Even if the Knicks have a super offensive combination of Anthony, Stoudemire and DeLong, Wang Xiao is not intimidated at all.

Come on! See who has the tougher attack!

In the second quarter of the game, the Knicks made some adjustments, Anthony went off the court, and Delon and Stoudemire played a blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation on the court.

Delon started with pick-and-roll tactics with Boozer when he was Jazz, and under the tutelage of Sloan, a master pick-and-roll, Delon has quite good pick-and-roll skills.

And Stoudemire is also a player who is very good at blocking and pick-and-roll, and when he was with the Suns, Stoudemire often cooperated with Nash in blocking and pick-and-roll.

But unfortunately, the Wizards' side also happened to start the blocking and dismantling tactics, and the initiator of the tactics was James. Harden.